Data from: Distinct roles of visual, parietal, and frontal motor cortices in...
Mapping specific sensory features to future motor actions is a crucial capability of mammalian nervous systems. We investigated the role of visual (V1), posterior parietal (PPC), and frontal motor...
View ArticleData from: A hierarchical model of whole assemblage island biogeography
Island systems have long played a central role in the development of ecology and evolutionary biology. However, while many empirical studies suggest species differ in vital biogeographic rates, such as...
View ArticleData from: Water flow impacts group behavior in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Constant temporal and spatial fluctuations of the physical environment pose a great challenge for individual survival, making plastic behavioral responses an important mechanism for coping with...
View ArticleData from: Shifting agriculture supports more tropical forest birds than oil...
Conversion of tropical forests and diverse multicrop agricultural land to commercial monocultures is a conservation concern worldwide. In northeast India, landscapes under shifting agriculture (or...
View ArticleData from: Does personality affect the ability of individuals to track and...
One possibility for why individual differences in behavioral plasticity are frequently associated with differences in personality might be that variation in personality is functionally related to...
View ArticleData from: Adaptive and neutral markers both show continent-wide population...
Assessments of population genetic structure and demographic history have traditionally been based on neutral markers while explicitly excluding adaptive markers. In this study, we compared the utility...
View ArticleData from: Superparasitism drives heritable symbiont epidemiology and host...
Heritable microbial symbionts have profound impacts upon the biology of their arthropod hosts. Whilst our current understanding of the dynamics of these symbionts is typically cast within a framework...
View ArticleData from: Development of microsatellite markers for buffalograss (Buchloë...
Premise of the study: Buchloë dactyloides is an important component of Great Plains prairies and a popular drought-tolerant turfgrass alternative in North America. This species comprises an...
View ArticleData from: Ancient DNA reveals differences in behaviour and sociality between...
Ancient DNA studies have revolutionised the study of extinct species and populations, providing insights on phylogeny, phylogeography, admixture and demographic history. However, inferences on...
View ArticleData from: Evolution of elaborate parental care: phenotypic and genetic...
The evolution of elaborate forms of parental care is an important topic in behavioral ecology, yet the factors shaping the evolution of complex suites of parental and offspring traits are poorly...
View ArticleData from: Preferred gait and walk-run transition speeds in ostriches...
The ostrich (Struthio camelus) is widely appreciated as a fast and agile bipedal athlete, and is a useful comparative bipedal model for human locomotion. Here we use GPS-IMU sensors to measure...
View ArticleData from: Constitutive turnover of histone H2A.Z at yeast promoters requires...
The assembly of the preinitiation complex (PIC) occurs upstream of the +1 nucleosome which, in yeast, obstructs the transcription start site and is frequently assembled with the histone variant H2A.Z....
View ArticleData from: Consensus forecasting of intertidal seagrass habitat in the Wadden...
After the dramatic eutrophication-induced decline of intertidal seagrasses in the 1970s, the Wadden Sea has shown diverging developments. In the northern Wadden Sea, seagrass beds have expanded and...
View ArticleData from: Coevolution of female and male genital components to avoid genital...
Background: In most animal groups, it is unclear how body size variation relates to genital size differences between the sexes. While most morphological features tend to scale with total somatic size,...
View ArticleData from: Does adaptive radiation of a host lineage promote ecological...
Adaptive radiations provide unique opportunities to test whether and how recent ecological and evolutionary diversification of host species structures the composition of entire bacterial communities....
View ArticleData from: Fitness consequences of altered feeding behavior in...
Background: Malaria-infected mosquitoes have been reported to be more likely to take a blood meal when parasites are infectious than when non-infectious. This change in feeding behavior increases the...
View ArticleData from: Membrane proteins are dramatically less conserved than...
Membrane proteins are crucial in transport, signaling, bioenergetics, catalysis, and as drug targets. Here we show that membrane proteins have dramatically fewer detectable orthologs than water-soluble...
View ArticleData from: Effects of host genetics and environment on egg-associated...
Recent studies found fish egg-specific bacterial communities that changed over the course of embryogenesis, suggesting an interaction between the developing host and its microbiota. Indeed,...
View ArticleData from: High-throughput microsatellite genotyping in ecology: improved...
Microsatellite markers have played a major role in ecological, evolutionary and conservation research during the past 20 years. However, technical constrains related to the use of capillary...
View ArticleData from: Gauging scale effects and biogeographical signals in similarity...
In biogeography, the similarity distance decay (SDD) relationship refers to the decrease in compositional similarity between communities with geographical distance. Although representing one of the...
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